Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Boor, Baltzer F.    
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BALTZER F. BOOR, an enterprising farmer and a representative 
citizen of Bedford township, Bedford County, Pa., is well 
known in this vicinity as a public official, having been a 
School Director several years and the Postmaster at Burning 
Bush since 1879.  He is of German descent, and was born 
November 30, 1843, in Cumberland Valley township, being a 
son of Samuel M. and Sophia (Fletcher) Boor.  His 
grandfather, Michael Boor, the son of a Revolutionary 
soldier, was born in Virginia, but removed with his parents 
to Cumberland Valley township in the early period of its 
settlement, and during his remaining days was engaged in the 
pioneer labor of clearing and improving a tract of wild 
land.
  Samuel M. Boor, who attained the venerable age of 
eighty-two years, spent his entire life in Bedford County, 
and with the exception of eleven years of the time was a 
resident of Cumberland Valley township.  A prominent farmer, 
capable and intelligent from a business point of view, he 
became one of the leading men of the place in his 
generation, and for several years was one of the Board of 
Directors of the Bedford County Almshouse.  He was an active 
member of the Lutheran church, and in politics his 
sympathies were always with the Democratic party.  Of the 
children born of his union with Sophia Fletcher, of Bedford 
County, four survive, namely: Joseph W., of Bedford, Pa.; 
Ellen, wife of John J. Wertz, of Cumberland Valley, Pa.; 
Elizabeth, wife of Martin Miller, of Hyndman, Pa.; and 
Baltzer F., with whose name the present sketch begins and 
with an outline of whose personal history it closes.
  Baltzer F. Boor in his early years attended the district 
schools of Cumberland Valley until familiar with the common 
branches of learning.  Deciding then to make farming the 
means by which he should earn a livelihood, he labored most 
diligently until he had acquired sufficient capital to 
purchase land of his own, and in course of time found 
himself the possessor of an estate of one hundred and 
twenty-two acres, on which he has since resided.  From year 
to year he has added improvements of an excellent character, 
and he is still conducting general farming thereon after the 
most approved modern methods.  In politics he is a Democrat 
and a vigorous supporter of the principles of that party.  
He is also influential in fraternal circles, being a member 
of the Bedford Lodge of Odd Fellows.  On December 24, 1868, 
Mr. Boor married Mary C. Cook, who was born and educated in 
Londonderry township, Bedford County, being a daughter of 
the late John Cook.  Mr. and Mrs. Boor have five children, 
namely: Effie M., wife of Albert E. Hendershot, of Hyndman, 
Pa.; Nora E.; Bessie P.; Foster E.; and Russell C.


Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa